Episodes

  • Saurabh Negi

    Saurabh Negi

     Be Stupid with Vir Das, Episode 1
    Dec 11 2019
    In Episode 1, Vir shares his story of the first tattoo he got back in 2008. He was asked if he was sure he wanted to do it. He was told repeatedly that it was permanent and that he’d eventually regret it. In this episode, Vir meets Saurabh Negi, who has done something to a part of his body that makes tattoos seem like a walk in the park.
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    41 mins
  • Sukanya Sharma

    Sukanya Sharma

     Be Stupid with Vir Das, Episode 2
    Dec 11 2019
    Everybody goes to Goa. But very few people decide to hitchhike to Goa on a daily budget of a 100 Rupees. In this episode, Sukanya Sharma talks to Vir about her first-ever trip to the party capital of India.
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    47 mins
  • Narayan Parelkar

    Narayan Parelkar

     Be Stupid with Vir Das, Episode 3
    Dec 11 2019
    Love and romance today is all about right swipes and eggplant emojis. But what was love, romance and marriage like in the 1950s? 91-year-old Narayan ‘Nana’ Parelkar tells Vir about the controversy around his decision to marry the girl he loved, the challenge he and his wife faced after tying the knot and how the “stupid” decision to choose love in the face of trials and tribulations has been the best decision of their lives.
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    42 mins
  • Almas Khateeb

    Almas Khateeb

     Be Stupid with Vir Das, Episode 4
    Dec 16 2019
    College is all about bunking classes and hanging with friends. But what happens when you knowingly bunk an exam? Things don’t go according to plan, the life track you chose for yourself gets derailed and you end up finding a completely new career path that you love. Almas Khateeb tells Vir how missing an exam changed her life.
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    45 mins
  • Sahaj Umang Singh Bhatia

    Sahaj Umang Singh Bhatia

     Be Stupid with Vir Das, Episode 5
    Dec 23 2019
    Today's wisdom tells us to right a wrong by posting angry emojis, self-aggrandising status messages and Insta stories. What happens when you actually face it head on? Sahaj Umang Singh Bhatia tells Vir about a December evening when he stupidly decided to confront power in person.
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    43 mins
  • Akram Firoze

    Akram Firoze

     Be Stupid with Vir Das, Episode 6
    Dec 30 2019
    Akram Firoze calls himself a “professional gimmick guy”. His life has been entirely about creating gimmicks and conducting social experiments on people so he can find out more about what people think and how people think. One day he took it too far. In this episode, Akram tells Vir how an incident near the India-Pakistan border almost shook him to the core and made him reconsider his beliefs.
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    43 mins
  • Vinay Lalwani

    Vinay Lalwani

     Be Stupid with Vir Das, Episode 7
    Jan 6 2020
    Vinay Lalwani is a successful businessman. He’s also a very sensible guy. It’s his sensibility that gives him an edge when making key business decisions. A few years back, his good sense took a sharp left turn when he decided to cross over from one country to another, without any passport, visa or legal documents. And this wasn’t just any country, this was probably the war capital of the world.
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    42 mins
  • Baba Sehgal

    Baba Sehgal

     Be Stupid with Vir Das, Episode 8
    Jan 13 2020
    When you think of Baba Sehgal you can only think in rhyme, because rhyme rhymes with thyme and thyme is the best herb in the world and while reading this synopsis your vision is blurred, your speech is slurred…okay enough. Let’s leave the rhymes to Baba. Songs about going to the gym and chicken fried rice may be what he’s known for today, but how did it all begin for him in the 90s? Answer: thanks to some pretty gutsy moves to grab the attention of Anu Malik and Bappi Lahiri.
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    40 mins